So if you hear about coupon codes, I actually get a small commission from that. And this helps me maintain my growing team as we can continue to provide you with all these amazing resources to help along this path.

[04:15] Medical School HQ

The Medical School Headquarters is the main hub under Meded Media, the umbrella term. MedicalSchoolHQ.net is our website that houses almost everything right now.

For the applications, a lot of students don’t understand that the GPA calculated for your application is not the same that you’re going to see on your transcript.

Your university may have grade replacements. The medical school applications do not. Your school may have weird plus/minus percentage calculation, TMDSAS doesn’t use that. They use a flat grade. While AMCAS and AACOMAS use plus/minus but still, a bit different than your school.

So your GPA is always a little bit wonky. And a lot of students always overestimate what their GPA is.

We have set up WhatsMyGPA.com, an amazing GPA Calculator where you enter your information. All your information stays there as well (unless you clear your browser cache).

You can email it to your premed advisors so they can look at it. They can then give you a lot more detailed information. The system we’ve built also includes graphs that will show you and your advisors what your trends look like.

MedSchoolReviews.com is a site that contains individual pages for each medical school in the country. And as new ones are added, we will also be adding new schools into the database.

Find out about things like class size, city walkability, weather, and school mission and vision, etc. We will have a review portion on the page so that current and former students of that school can leave their reviews. It’s a 1-5 system based on 10-12 different categories. The reviews will be verified before they will go live.

This tool will help you figure out what schools you want to apply to. Getting a behind-the-scenes review from students will hopefully help you figure out.

[10:20] Our Selection of Podcasts

Aside from The Premed Years podcast, we have a whole host of other podcasts. The Premed Years is our longest-running show with 357 episodes now, with over 3,000,000 downloads.

The OldPreMeds Podcast now almost has 200 episodes. The PremedForums.com is a community of students where they post their questions and this is where I pull out my questions which I answer on the podcast.

If you’re a nontraditional student and you want a question answered on the podcast, register for a free account.

We’re starting to get physicians on board at FindShadowing.com. We need your help with this right now. It’s not open to premed students yet. But it’s open to physicians.

If you have a physician in your family or a mentor who’s a physician, please send them to the site and ask them to sign up for an account.

They will be protected as they can set the maximum number of requests that students can send. They may also deactivate their account and it will protect their location. They may also notify students if they’re not available to be requested.

We will be opening this up eventually to all pre-health students including pre-vets, chiropractors, PA, NPs, PT, OT, etc.

[17:00] Come Meet Me at These Events!

I will be doing a meetup in San Francisco this September. Also, I will be holding different meetups at these different events:

[19:00] The Premed Hangout

Application Renovation is a six-part series where I’m breaking down applications from students who didn’t get into medical school. Get a behind-the-scenes look of what the application looks like and how the admissions committee members may be reviewing an application.

This is in the works too, most likely happening in 2020, potentially in the New York tri-state area. It’s a live conference all about premed and getting to medical school. Email me at [email protected] and let me know if you’re interested in going to a conference.